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Fair play : a novel / by Hegarty, Louise,author.;
A group of friends gather at an Airbnb on New Year's Eve. It is Benjamin's birthday, and his sister Abigail is throwing him a jazz-age Murder Mystery themed party. As the night plays out, champagne is drunk, hors d'oeuvres consumed, and relationships forged, consolidated or frayed. Someone kisses the wrong person; someone else's heart is broken. In the morning, all of them wake up--except Benjamin. As Abigail attempts to wrap her mind around her brother's death, an eminent detective arrives determined to find Benjamin's killer. In this mansion, suddenly complete with a butler, gardener and housekeeper, everyone is a suspect, and nothing is quite as it seems. Will the culprit be revealed? And how can Abigail, now alone, piece herself back together in the wake of this loss? Gripping and playful, sharp and profoundly moving, Fair Play plumbs the depths of the human heart while subverting one of our most popular genres.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Birthday parties; Brothers; Detectives; Friendship; Mansions; Murder; Siblings; Suspects (Criminal investigation);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Do parents matter? : why Japanese babies sleep soundly, Mexican siblings don't fight, and American families should just relax / by LeVine, Robert Alan,1932-author.; LeVine, Sarah,1940-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In some parts of northwestern Nigeria, mothers studiously avoid making eye contact with their babies. Some Chinese parents go out of their way to seek confrontation with their toddlers. Japanese parents almost universally co-sleep with their infants, sometimes continuing to share a bed with them until age ten. Yet all these parents are as likely as Americans to have loving relationships with happy children. If these practices seem bizarre, or their results seem counterintuitive, it's not necessarily because other cultures have discovered the keys to understanding children. It might be more appropriate to say there are no keys-but Americans are driving themselves crazy trying to find them. When we're immersed in news articles and scientific findings proclaiming the importance of some factor or other, we often miss the bigger picture: that parents can only affect their children so much. Robert and Sarah LeVine, married anthropologists at Harvard University, have spent their lives researching parenting across the globe-starting with a trip to visit the Hausa people of Nigeria as newlyweds in 1969. Their decades of original research provide a new window onto the challenges of parenting and the ways that it is shaped by economic, cultural, and familial traditions. Their ability to put our modern struggles into global and historical perspective should calm many a nervous mother or father's nerves. It has become a truism to say that American parents are exhausted and overstressed about the health, intelligence, happiness, and success of their children. But as Robert and Sarah LeVine show, this is all part of our culture. And a look around the world may be just the thing to remind us that there are plenty of other choices to make."--
Subjects: Child development; Child rearing; Ethnopsychology.; Families; Parenting;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Games Untold [electronic resource] : by Barnes, Jennifer Lynn.aut; cloudLibrary;
Subjects: Electronic books.; Action & Adventure; Contemporary; Mysteries & Detective Stories; Thrillers & Suspense; Siblings;
© 2024., Little, Brown Books for Young Readers,
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Night night! Sleep tight! / by Mayer, Mercer,1943-;
"It's bedtime for Little Critter and Little Sister, but when there's a strange sound in the night, the two are determined to find the source of the tap-tap. Things that look like monsters in the dark turn out to be innocent in this nighttime adventure. Will they ever find out what's making the sound?"--Ages 4-8.
Subjects: Animal comics.; Graphic novels.; Readers (Publications); Comics (Graphic works); Little Critter (Fictitious character); Cartoons and comics.; Siblings; Night; Noise; Bedtime;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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People person / by Carty-Williams, Candice,1989-author.;
"The author of the "brazenly hilarious, tell-it-like-it-is first novel" (Oprah Daily) Queenie returns with another witty and insightful novel about the power of family--even when they seem like strangers. If you could choose your family ... you wouldn't choose the Penningtons. Dimple Pennington knows of her half siblings, but she doesn't really know them. Five people who don't have anything in common except for faint memories of being driven through Brixton in their dad's gold jeep, and some pretty complex abandonment issues. Dimple has bigger things to think about. She's thirty, and her life isn't really going anywhere. An aspiring lifestyle influencer with a terrible and wayward boyfriend, Dimple's life has shrunk to the size of a phone screen. And despite a small but loyal following, she's never felt more alone in her life. That is, until a dramatic event brings her half siblings Nikisha, Danny, Lizzie, and Prynce crashing back into her life. And when they're all forced to reconnect with Cyril Pennington, the absent father they never really knew, things get even more complicated. From an author with "a flair for storytelling that appears effortlessly authentic" (Time), People Person is a vibrant and charming celebration of discovering family as an adult"--
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Dysfunctional families; Families; Father and child; Loneliness; Siblings; Women, Black;
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Don't say a word / by Brennan, Allison,author.;
The police ruled Elijah Martinez's death an accidental drug overdose, but the teen's grieving mother isn't convinced. With the case officially closed, Angelhart Investigations is the only one who can help her find the truth. Margo Angelhart's sure this will be an easy solve--she'll talk to Elijah's friends and employer, retrace his steps, and figure out what happened in his final hours. When Margo's brother Jack, a former cop, can't get straight answers out of the police, they don't know if it's because of an active case ... or a cover-up. Margo's only sure of one thing--she has to find out what really happened to Elijah before more teens become pawns in a twisted scheme"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Drugs; Families; Murder; Private investigators; Secrecy; Siblings; Teenagers; Women private investigators;
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Don't say a word [text (large print)] / by Brennan, Allison,author.;
The police ruled Elijah Martinez's death an accidental drug overdose, but the teen's grieving mother isn't convinced. With the case officially closed, Angelhart Investigations is the only one who can help her find the truth. Margo Angelhart's sure this will be an easy solve--she'll talk to Elijah's friends and employer, retrace his steps, and figure out what happened in his final hours. When Margo's brother Jack, a former cop, can't get straight answers out of the police, they don't know if it's because of an active case ... or a cover-up. Margo's only sure of one thing--she has to find out what really happened to Elijah before more teens become pawns in a twisted scheme"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Large print books.; Novels.; Drugs; Families; Murder; Private investigators; Secrecy; Siblings; Teenagers; Women private investigators;
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Still waters / by Goldman, Matt,1962-author.;
Moments after they learn their brother is dead, estranged siblings Liv and Gabe receive a scheduled email from him, claiming he was murdered, and returning home to investigate, they risk everything to unearth the secrets in a small town where someone is willing to kill for the truth to stay buried.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Brothers; Electronic mail messages; Murder; Siblings; Small cities;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Smuggler's Cove / by Michaels, Fern,author.;
"Growing up, Madison Taylor and her younger brother Lincoln livedin privilege, but their sheltered existence abruptly ended when their father was arrested for fraud and the family assets were seized. Since then, Madison has carved out a new path, studying fashion and working her way up to editor-in-chief of La Femme magazine, while Lincoln teaches wealth management at a small college outside the city. Both have separated themselves from their family and their past -- until an unexpected bequest arrives from their late uncle. Madison and Lincoln are now the new co-owners of a marina at Smugglers Cove on the Navesink river. Instead of a fabulous, Hamptons-style property, Smugglers Cove offers little beyond a dilapidated dock, a few gas pumps, and a handful of clam boats. Madison's plan to sell the property goes awry when a dead body is found floating under their dock and transforms their new inheritance into a crime scene"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Alienation (Social psychology); College teachers; Inheritance and succession; Marinas; Siblings; Women editors;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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The red queen / by Grimes, Martha,author.;
"A sudden murder in an English village pub sets off the twenty-sixth novel in the bestselling series starring superintendent Richard Jury, from bestselling author Martha Grimes, still "one of the most fascinating mystery writers today" (Houston Chronicle). One calm night in Twickenham, a businessman named Tom Treadnor is shot off his barstool at The Queen pub. Superintendent Richard Jury is called in to investigate, and quickly realizes that everyone in Treadnor's life-from his widow, Alice, to the staff at his manor, to his business partner had differing opinions of him. And to complicate things further, Jury has just happened upon a photo in a newspaper of a man in the United States, who is a dead ringer for Treadnor. Meanwhile, Wiggins, Jury's partner at New Scotland Yard, becomes sidetracked by an investigation of his own: His sister, missing for years and presumed dead, has just sent a postcard to their mother. When Wiggins takes off in search of his sister, the two investigations begin to converge."--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Jury, Richard (Fictitious character); Businessmen; Missing persons; Murder; Police; Siblings;
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